Synthesizing the Learning: A New Diversity/Intercultural Competence Model for Change

Abstract

If we are ever going to change how we view, treat, and inspire people, the change will need to start with people who have leadership roles. And their personal transformation will morph through their respective organizational venues, inspiring the hearts and souls of others to change as well. In our self-transformation, we become a living symbol of change—metaphors that bring about metamorphosis (Chatterjee, 1998, as cited in Quinn, 2004). People who are around us become attracted to our energy in such a manner that they begin to empower themselves—actions that lead to emergent organizing—a change in the system that no one “leads” in the traditional sense (2004).